LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than late March 2025 to launch a new crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said on Tuesday.

The new mission, codenamed Crew-10, will send NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov to ISS.

The agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will return to Earth following the arrival of Crew-10 to the orbital laboratory, according to NASA.

Williams and Wilmore have been stuck in space since June due to technical problems of Boeing's Starliner which took them to ISS.

NASA's previous plan was to get them back next February. But the new schedule announced Tuesday meant the two astronauts will stay in space at least one more month. Enditem

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